Reel Review #36: “This is a fictional life, based on a factual death.” Check out this reconstructional of the 1980 Samuel Fuller film, The Big Red One. Originally butchered by the studio, Richard Schickel attempts to restore the film to the director’s original vision. Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill and Robert Carradine – what more can you ask for? “We don’t murder, we kill.”

As Michael notes in the review, this film is about the Army’s first division, which Samuel Fuller was in. Their uniform patch is simply the numeral “1” in red. So I believe the title should be pronounced “the big red ONE”, not “the big RED one”.

Ain’t It Cool had a good interview about The Big Red One with Mark Hamill and some other folks involved with the film from that event. You should be able to catch it here: http://aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=20245